Lexington PhotoReal Scenery. This is high resolution, 1 meter/pixel, terrain scenery for Lexington, KY. Section I is one of ten that features farmland south of Lexington. This photoscenery is for day use only and will work for any season, but shows only the USGS aerial photo data taken in April 2002. The default FSX mesh works well with this photoscenery and no additional mesh for the area needs to be purchased. The 10 sections of scenery, totaling 600 Mb, contains photoreal terrain textures for Lexington, Kentucky, encompassing an area bounded by 14.5 E-W and 17 N-S miles (about 245 square miles). By Jim Jones.

Section I - Lexington Photoreal Scenery.

Lexington, Kentucky 1M PhotoReal Version LexFX1Mi
For use with FSX
By: Jim Jones

This is high resolution, 1Meter/Pixel, terrain scenery for Lexington, Ky for Section I, see details below, that features farmland south of Lexington. Section C was the first upload, and others will follow in time.

Errata: The Section C download referenced some gif, and txt files and names of files in the documentation erroneously as LexXP...., that should have been LexFX.... A thousand pardons!!!!

This photoscenery is for DAY USE ONLY and will work for any season, although the source is from USGS aerial photos taken in April 2002 and shows only that season. The resolution of this scenery is 1 meter/pixel. Photoscenery areas prevent autogen scenery from appearing within the photoscenery area, but autogen will appear outside the photoscenery area. The default FSX mesh works well with this photoscenery and no additional mesh for the area needs to be purchased. I have no plans to create 1M night scenery. Use my 4M night scenery instead if you intend to fly at night. Caution, 1M and 4M scenery are incompatible and should not be active at the same time since they conflict with one another producing unpleasing results. If the 1M scenery is active at night the default FSX night scenery terrain scenery will not show.

The area covered by all 10 downloads is nearly rectangular, with a couple of notches removed and represents all of that area covered in the original photography. All downloads will require about 600Mb of disk space. The corner locations are approximately:

The 10 downloads of scenery contains photoreal terrain textures for Lexington, Ky, encompassing an area bounded by 14.5 E-W and 17 N-S miles (about 245 square miles). No new objects have been added and none have been removed. So, misplaced or misligned objects placed in the original FSX scenery remain as is.

Refer to the photo named Lexmap.jpg to see what is included in each download. The following shows a list of the 10 downloads, a brief comment on their contents and the storage requirements for each.

Places of interest include the center of the City of Lexington, KY, the University of Kentucky Campus, Bluegrass Airport, Keeneland Racetrack, horse farms, lakes, Interstate systems, and the general terrain of Kentucky's bluegrass region.

The textures cover the Kentucky River with the river's natural color. Only a small portion of the river appears in the SouthEast section of the photoreal scenery. Consequently, these textures will not show reflections or other water effects such as wakes by float planes and boats. The lakes have not been processed to act like water, so boats and floatplanes will not provide water effects.

INSTALLATION:

CAUTION, this install procedure is different than that of the intial LexFX1Mc prodedure. You will be instructed to move the files for this section to the initial LexFX1Mc folder. It is recommended that you have downloaded and installed LexFX1Mc first for this procedure to be correct.

Unzip the LexFX1Mi.zip into a temporary folder. This places a few files in the base of that temporary folder plus the subfolders of:

Documentation
Scenery (contains 4 BGL files)

Note: There is not a Texture folder since the BGL files contain the textures within them.

The purpose of this is to have all the BGL files in one scenery folder and all the documentation in one folder. This allows having to activate only one scenery folder, which you should have peviously done with the Section C install.

CONFIGURATION NOTES

Some FSX configurations are essential for getting the best detail in these photosceneries:

FPS is a very important adjustment. If set too high the textures will not appear sharp. Phototextures are usually presented by FSX at startup in its highest resolution. If you go too fast, if the Target FPS is too high, or you do a lot of panning in or out of the A/C the terrain will go to a lower blurry resolution. In time the blurry terrain will improve ahead of your view. If not you need to set your FPS target lower, or fly slower or stop panning your view -- or all of these. The amount of non terrain scenery and panel also has an effect. You may wish to view with no panel at all.

I get the best result using the Trike at low speeds, with an exterior view above and behind, zoomed out and looking almost directly below. That is where FSX seems to generate the highest resoution terrain first.

My computer installation is about 3 years old, slow by recent standards. I must set my FPS to 10 FPS for best results. I recently added RAM to achieve a total of 2Gb, an important improvement for photoscenery.

Images/Screenshots

The archive lexfx1mi.zip has 13 files and directories contained within it.

File Contents

This list displays the first 500 files in the package. If the package has more, you will need to download it to view them.

Filename/Directory

File Date

File Size

LexFX1Mi.gif

05.10.07

17.14 kB

Documentation

05.10.07

0 B

LexFX1Mi.txt

05.10.07

7.65 kB

Lexmap.jpg

05.01.07

273.56 kB

LexI01.jpg

05.10.07

355.94 kB

FILE_ID.DIZ

05.10.07

610 B

scenery

05.10.07

0 B

Lex0163001186.bgl

04.26.07

7.35 MB

Lex0162901185.bgl

04.26.07

20.95 MB

Lex0162901186.bgl

04.26.07

6.29 MB

Lex0163001185.bgl

04.26.07

21.18 MB

flyawaysimulation.txt

10.29.13

959 B

Go to Fly Away Simulation.url

01.22.16

52 B

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